Ukraine to Inspect ‘Abnormal’ 2,000 Percent Spike in Draft-Age Men Applying for College

Published on April 12, 2024

The Ukrainian government will be conducting random inspections at colleges and universities across the country, a decision prompted by a nearly 2,000 percent increase in the number of applications from draft-age men since the full-blown war with Russia began more than two years ago. Ukraine’s State Service of Education Quality, an agency within the country’s education ministry tasked with overseeing education standards, said it had examined state data on men born between 1964 and 1994 who either entered or returned to full-time education between 2021 and 2023. The results of the analysis, according to the agency, indicate an “abnormal increase” in applications to higher education and professional pre-higher education programs—a 1,880 percent surge in 2022, when the almost decade-long Russo-Ukrainian conflict escalated into a full-scale invasion....

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